STARGATE SG-1 The Power Behind the Throne by The Power Behind the Throne (SG1–15)

Author:The Power Behind the Throne (SG1–15) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-23T10:42:35+00:00

Chapter twenty-one

Secret Garden

They traded one prison for another.

The haze of the sedatives gradually cleared, but Teal’c felt no better for it. The Jaffa tested his bonds. There was no give in the iron. He felt naked without his staff weapon. For much of the journey south to the capitol, Karelea, they had pumped drugs into his body to subdue him. They were ineffective. His symbiote processed much of the toxins rendering the sedatives harmless. Teal’c did not allow his captors to realize he was effectively immune. Instead, he feigned grogginess when they came in to the rolling prison and watched as they sedated the others, and listened to the one called Jahamat as he ingratiated himself into O’Neill’s drug-addled subconscious with his questions. It was well done. The man might have used more direct methods, cracking O’Neill’s psyche open like the shell of a nut, but instead he teased the information out one secret at a time.

It took time, but so did the journey south.

The gradually increasing warmth through the cell’s thin walls was the only proof that they were actually moving away from the arctic north to more bearable climes.

It was not only the Corvani that learned secrets through deception. Jahamat and the Mujina were careless with their tongues, confident that none of their prisoners were lucid enough to understand even if they heard. Teal’c listened, content in his silence, as the Mujina filled Jahamat’s head with all the secrets of the Stargates and the lies of possibility. More than once he wondered if the creature was aware he faked unconsciousness. If it was, it gave no indication of it. In return for the Mujina’s promises, the Corvani shared all that he knew of his own society and his hopes that the Stargate would once and for all prove that his people were indeed above the cursed Kelani in terms of their evolution.

How could that be argued, now that he could prove they had come to Kumara from the stars? It couldn’t, surely? And once they opened the gate for Keen, every belief he held would be vindicated. It would be the dawning of a new age, and Jahamat would stand right at the very heart of it, the most important man in the world for a few minutes at least.

Keen would reward him.

Teal’c hid his skepticism behind a veneer of sleep. He had served enough men to know that the messenger was never truly important, no matter how much he might crave the acclaim. Keen would accept Jahamat’s proof and then he would send the man off on another fool’s mission. That was the nature of men like Corvus Keen; they were never content, and they never kept anyone capable of posing a threat close enough to hurt them. If they opened the gate, Teal’c knew, Jahamat would be among the first to go off world, and none of those he left behind would shed any tears if he did not return.

Listening in the dark, Teal’c came to understand the creature more and more as it goaded the man on.

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